Re: Apple Desktop II on a IIe card?

[Lockar <lockar@nospam.com>]

   Tony,

       That's true, holding down the mouse button will stop the drive. 
you can do the same effect buy activating the mouse keys.

     -Lockar



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<Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1040119003647.8414A-100000@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca>,
 Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:

> Keep a mouse attached to the IIc+ and press the button every time you want
> to change disks.  The drive will stop running while the mouse button is
> depressed.
> 
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> 
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Lockar wrote:
> 
> >        That's odd that it will not work on your Apple //c+.  That's how
> > I discovered that it works on the Apple //c+ years ago.  I ran it on an
> > old GSOS disk, and thought hmm.. What would happen if I moved some
> > files around and tried to run it on my Apple //c+.  It worked, but like
> > I said in my earlier post it keeps the the internal 3.5 drive running. 
> > MouseDesk and Catalyst do the same thing.  From what I was told it has
> > something about do the way Apple handeled the 3.5 drive in that
> > computer.
> > 
> >     Maybe you need a fresh copy.  I would be willing to shrink a verion
> > I have from a dev CD to see if that fixes your problem.
> > 
> > 
> >      -Lockar
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > In article <1g7qngm.1vva2aoel3mx0N%spam@luddite.ca>, Simon Williams
> > <spam@luddite.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've found that Apple II Desktop 1.1 works great on a system with only
> > > floppy drives, but I've had some lousy experiences trying to use it with
> > > a hard drive. I have 6 x 27 MB ProDOS partitions, 2 x 3.5" and 1 x 5.25"
> > > floppies, so I'm well under the volume limit. I've found that when
> > > copying multiple files to or from the HD, A2Desktop often crashes,
> > > though I've never had this happen with floppies. Generally after a
> > > crash, I have had to run Prosel's volume repair utilities to restore
> > > order.
> > > A2Desktop also won't work on my //c+, though I've no way to tell if it
> > > is a bug in the software or possibly a problem with the computer.
> > > -simon
> > 
> > 
> > 
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